BLUR played a set at the 2012 Brit Awards, including "Girls & Boys", "Song 2″, "Parklife", "Tender", and "This Is A Low".

DAMIEN JURADO stopped by KEXP with some adventurous psych-folk.

MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

THE WOODEN SKY is advance streaming Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun.

PLANTS & ANIMALS are advance streaming The End Of That.

CHAIRLIFT stopped by World Cafe for a session.

THE ELWINS are joined by Nils Edenloff of The Rural Alberta Advantage for a cover of Chilliwack's "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)" on Exclaim!

MAGNETIC FIELDS: Stephin Merritt talks to Drowned In Sound about an assortment of subjects from pop music to love in the Facebook generation.

THE FUTUREHEADS talks to NME about recording an a capella album.

ROSIE THOMAS talks to eMusic about Bette Midler, the bipolar-ness of New York, and getting married on a farm in Kansas. (Thx, LHB.)

HOW CAPITOL RECORDS (allegedly) screwed Kenny Rogers. A handbook for musicians.

LINDSAY LOHAN got yet another rave review from Judge Stephanie Sautner during her probation progress report hearing  Wednesday.

BRITNEY SPEARS wants to join the judges' panel on X Factor.

BRADGELINA: Jolie hints she may finally be ready to marry Brad Pitt.

WHITNEY HOUSTON: Bobby Brown reportedly wants to sell a tell-all book, although he signed a confidentiality agreement when they got divorced.

KARDASHIANS: Kourtney is expecting a baby girl.

CHARLIE SHEEN's  ex-wife, Brooke Mueller, has been released from the renowned Cirque Lodge in Sundance, UT, according to RadarOnline.

L.A. NOIR: former Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia is set to star in Frank Darabont's TNT pilot for a fast-paced crime drama set in Los Angeles during the 1940s and '50s.

TERROR in NORWAY: During his trial for death threats against Norwegian leaders, Islamic extremist Mullah Krekar condoned the use of suicide bombers in Afghanistan.

SYRIA: Even before government forces began an artillery onslaught on Homs' Sunni Muslim areas nearly three weeks ago to try to crush the opposition, the city had been splintering along sectarian lines. Some fear this could foreshadow civil war.

EGYPT & TUNISIA: After months of reassuring secularist critics, Islamist politicians in Tunisia and Egypt have begun to lay down markers about how Muslim their states should be -- and first signs show they want more religion than previously admitted. Shocka.

AFGHANISTAN: The US and the Afghan governments are considering pushing through a long-delayed partnership agreement by moving the contentious issues of night raids and control over detainees to separate negotiations, officials from both countries said.

DOG trees a MOUNTAIN LION.

WILDTHING was Best Bison at a wedding in Quinlan, Texas.

COWS stare unamazed as they are monitored by texting collars.

CRISPY BACON -- a pot-bellied pig -- recovers from a drug overdose.